boyutpedia Chapter 92 Heavenly Treasure Vault
Chapter 92 Heavenly Treasure Vault
When he woke up again, he was no longer in Jinyao City. Before his eyes was a clear blue sky, a view that could not be seen in Jinyao City. Cheng Jiu felt light and airy, and both his body and mind were relaxed, as if he were floating on clouds.
'So good to sleep!' That was Cheng Jiu's only thought. In her dizzy state, she just wanted to close her eyes and have a long sleep.
"Qingxu's disciple, you're awake." A tall, handsome man dressed in black finery looked down at Cheng Jiu lying on the ground, appearing out of place in this bright and dazzling scene.
It took Cheng Jiu a while to process what had happened before he finally snapped out of his daze: "Ghost Emperor!"
She got up from the ground: "What are you doing here?" He looked around and the most conspicuous thing was the golden palace in front of him, which was reflecting the sky with rainbow light.
Just looking at her gives me the urge to kneel down.
“You haven’t been to the Ghost Realm, and with all that commotion in Kamule City, I guessed you were teleported here! And sure enough, I was right!” The Ghost Emperor said calmly, “I really didn’t expect you to actually persuade that silly bird to turn back.”
Cheng Jiu looked around. The area was shrouded in mist. They were in the central square in front of the main hall. Looking at this kind of building, Cheng Jiu had a sense of familiarity. What was it?
Oh, right, it's the place where she tested her aptitude back then, the Ascension Platform!
Such architecture, so magnificent, all in the same style—she was the first to wake up, while her friends were still lying unconscious in the square.
However, because the Ghost Emperor was there, she wasn't afraid: "Ghost Emperor, you are here!"
"Hmph, that guy felt guilty for his past mistakes. Now that you've corrected them and solved one of his most important problems, he's rewarded you by opening his own private treasury!" The Ghost Emperor's tone was mocking.
The sky was clear and blue, but then a thunderclap suddenly appeared, seemingly a warning, or perhaps a sign of discontent.
The Ghost Emperor looked at the sky, his tone tinged with helplessness, but he still said seriously, "Alright, alright, I won't say anything more! This is the Heavenly Treasury! You can think of it as the Heavenly Dao's private treasury."
Cheng Jiu looked at the sky, slightly startled. Why were they here?
The other six people slowly woke up as well. Cheng Jiu, like them, was unwilling to move. Only when they saw the Ghost Emperor and Cheng Jiu directly in front of them did they break free from that comfortable feeling.
"Lord Ghost Emperor!"
"Lord Ghost Emperor, Junior Sister!" The group scrambled to their feet, looking around: "Where are we?"
“A treasure trove of heaven,” Cheng Jiu said.
"The Heavenly Treasury? I never imagined it actually existed!" Nan Yanzhe looked around excitedly.
"Lord Ghost Emperor, what are you doing here?" Gongcheng asked curiously.
"Because Qingxu's disciple is here, although few people come to the Heavenly Treasure Vault, I don't see everyone. Since it's your first time here, I'm afraid you won't understand anything and will leave empty-handed! So, when I sensed the fluctuations in spacetime, I came to guard it," the Ghost Emperor explained.
"Lord Ghost Emperor, Kamule City, Nabu? And Agana!" The group had too many questions in their minds. If it weren't for the fact that the people in the city and the Ghost Emperor themselves confirmed that it was in the Xuan Tian Continent, they would all feel a sense of disconnect.
The only one who could answer them was the Ghost Emperor in front of them, since the Ghost Emperor had lived for as long as the Xuan Tian Continent had existed.
"That was a very, very long time ago." The Ghost Emperor fell into thought: "As you all know, the Xuan Tian Continent was not initially dominated by humans. In fact, it should be said that humans did not exist at all."
"Ah!" Although historical records about ancient times are scarce, there are always some fragments. Everyone knows that humans were not the dominant force at the beginning, but the absence of humans is truly a bit too much...
"When the world first opened up on the Xuan Tian Continent, perhaps due to the legacy of the Great Dao or something, only the two paths of Heaven and Earth were born, while the creatures living on the ground were divine beasts transformed from the legacy of the Three Thousand Laws."
Back then, I wasn't the Ghost Emperor yet. To be precise, I was the Green Mountain God-King, or so I thought. At that time, dragons, phoenixes, and many other divine beasts lived there. According to the trajectory of the Xuan Tian Continent, it should have been transitioning into the Wilderness Realm.” The Ghost Emperor's eyes still held a nostalgic glint as he spoke.
"So the phoenix really exists?" Cheng Jiu and the others asked curiously.
"No, it doesn't exist!" the Ghost Emperor denied. "Unfortunately, during this process, the Xuan Tian Continent was targeted by the Upper Realm. The Xuan Tian Continent was born as a subordinate world of the Upper Realm."
There are extremely strict hierarchical rules between worlds: the middle thousand worlds absorb the small thousand worlds, and the great thousand worlds absorb the middle thousand worlds.
The smaller world provides the larger world with fortune and talent, while the larger world in turn provides the smaller world with resources and spiritual energy, and incidentally protects the smaller world.
Because of the divine beasts on the continent, the Xuan Tian Continent was directly transformed from a Lesser Thousand World to a Middle Thousand World. If there were no obstacles during its continuous advancement, it should have now transformed into a Greater Thousand World.
Unfortunately, because it had not provided any fortune or talent for many years, it was observed by the higher realms.
Divine beasts transformed by the laws are precious and scarce resources in the upper realm. Those hunting dogs not only slaughter these creatures, but also try to keep them in captivity, turning the Xuan Tian Continent into a source of resources for their precious materials.
The dragon and phoenix that dominated the Xuan Tian Continent at that time were very unwilling. They united with all the divine beasts of the Xuan Tian Continent and the people of the upper realm to fight a fierce battle. In the end, they sacrificed all their laws to heaven and earth, leaving those with ulterior motives empty-handed. From that day on, the Xuan Tian Continent reopened.
The world split apart, dividing into four realms: demons, cultivators, ghosts, and mortals. The mortal realm was the site of that great war and sacrifice. The human race was born at that time.
That war was so brutal that Heaven could not accept it and remained silent.
That's why you see that resources were extremely scarce back then, and people from the upper realm could freely travel to and from the lower realm.
The birth of you humans is caused by the Heavenly Dao taking out immaculate soil and combining it with the Qi of destiny to randomly scatter it among the human world. Most of you fall into the mortal realm, and only a small portion reside in the immortal cultivation world.
The earliest cultivators in the cultivation world were people who came down from the upper realm to guide those who had fallen into the mortal world and embark on the path to immortality.
As for the Demon Realm, it is inhabited by the bloodlines left behind by the divine beasts that were sacrificed at that time. Because of the guilt felt towards these divine beasts, the Heavenly Dao has protected it well, and people from the Upper Realm cannot go to the Demon Realm.
"As for me, I became the ruler of the ghost realm because the human race needed to reincarnate!"
He spoke with a sigh.
"What's the deal with that phoenix?" Although I've always known that the demon realm is favored by the Heavenly Dao, I don't know why it sounds so heartbreaking.
"That is the faith that you humans have in the Golden Crow and the Phoenix. This faith absorbed the remnants of the Golden Crow and the Phoenix and formed the Phoenix!" said the Ghost Emperor.
"If the Phoenix doesn't exist, then how could he have descended upon Camille City and usurped the so-called Phoenix's bloodline?" Cheng Jiu pointed at Nan Yanzhe and said.
Nan Yanzhe took out the bag containing the souls and handed it to the Ghost Emperor.
The Ghost Emperor took it with some surprise: "I didn't expect you to actually capture his remnant soul. I thought it would have dissipated by now, after tens of thousands of years."
"He can't be killed!" Cheng Jiucheng said. If it weren't for the Qingxu Sword, they might not have been able to catch this guy.
"Leave it to me!" The Ghost Emperor tucked him into his sleeve: "I almost forgot that the souls of people from the Upper Realm are more resilient than those of people from the Lower Realm."
"As for your question, didn't I already say that the Phoenix absorbed the remnants of the Golden Crow and the Phoenix? Although it was just a belief, you humans were formed from the Immaculate Soil."
So, over millions of years, these humans also acquired the bloodline of the Golden Crow and the Phoenix, a bloodline known as the Phoenix Immortal.
Like totems, the city of Kamule was among the first to worship the phoenix. As the world that provides sustenance to the upper realm, the creation of the world must have been similar, and the phoenix existed in the upper realm.
However, because of that catastrophe in the lower realm, the phoenix became a totem here, while the phoenix in the upper realm, I remember, has become extinct.
That's why this guy thought the totem bloodline was the Phoenix bloodline and tried to usurp it. But actually, if he observed carefully, he would have discovered that if Kamule City stopped worshipping the Phoenix, the bloodline in their bodies would slowly fade away. "The Ghost Emperor said.
"What's going on with Nabu and Agana?" Cheng Jiu's mind was completely blank. If what he said was true, it was just the so-called totem bloodline, but Kamule City was indeed lost for hundreds of thousands of years because of Nabu and Agana.
"Because these two little girls were so tragic and their hatred was so intense, it actually aroused the spirit of the phoenix in their totem."
The Heavenly Dao itself felt guilty towards that bird. Sensing that the bird had acted strangely, it turned a blind eye and allowed it to throw Kamule City out of the River of Time. Kamule City then became a small world in the Xuan Tian Continent.
But unfortunately, maintaining a world is not so easy, especially since this world was created by a remnant soul and the souls of two people, even though the Heavenly Dao has given back to this small world in the meantime.
However, with no one around, just empty cities and dead souls, the Lesser Thousand Worlds continued to decline day by day. When it finally could not hold on any longer, the Heavenly Dao took it back in the form of a secret realm.
But this creates a paradox: this world itself belongs to the Xuan Tian Continent, and when they return to the Xuan Tian Continent, it's as if the pebble has re-entered the river of time.
As he spoke, the Ghost Emperor gestured and said, "Have you ever played with those mortal world maps? Kamule City originally had a groove on the Xuan Tian Continent, and when it returned, it did not reoccupy a groove after hundreds of thousands of years, but returned to the original groove."
The phoenix itself possesses the law of rebirth. Based on this city, it will go down two paths. One is to stagnate at the moment when Nabu drained the lives of more than 100,000 people, turning Kamule City into a dead city.
The other path is rebirth, with Kamule City continuing to develop according to the course of history. The Ghost Emperor spoke with a mixture of感慨 (gǎnkǎi, a complex emotion encompassing both reflection and irony).
"That's why you were able to see that vengeful ghost in the Tribulation Transcending stage. It was the collision of time that caused it to gain hundreds of thousands of years of cultivation for no reason, and finally formed that unique vengeful ghost."
This vengeful ghost almost caused the small world to shatter completely, but the two children who managed the small world got stuck in a rut. Although the ghost realm came into contact with the small world, it was still blocked by her.
In fact, I owe you all a lot. Otherwise, once this small world is fully integrated into the Xuan Tian Continent, a ghost realm will suddenly appear in the Western Regions, which would give me a real headache.
Since the Heavenly Dao resumed its responsibilities, it must have felt some regret when it thought about this small world, because just two people had destroyed a city with more than 100,000 people.
In order to save this little world, it will enter this secret realm and send it to the human world as an opportunity. After you obtained the map to enter the secret realm, you must have encountered many opportunities!
This is Heaven's compensation to you, ensuring that you will at least survive after entering the secret realm.
Even if you didn't complete the mission, just dealing with the vengeful spirits was already a great help. And you actually changed the bird's mind, allowing over 100,000 people to survive. So, as a reward, it brought you here.
The others nodded in agreement. Cheng Jiu mentioned the strange birds and fish, saying that the cities built by mortals were so close to those creatures, and their numbers were too great. If they were to besiege the city, Kamule City would be completely defenseless.
"Those were savage beasts, and later, demonic beasts; they were the products of the great war at that time."
"You don't need to worry about that. These things aren't like the monster siege you're facing now. They're all contained in one place by the Heavenly Dao and won't easily enter," the Ghost Emperor explained.